Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-28

VIRGINIA NEWS.

VIRGINIA q A. ~ ~
1t is said the prices of leaf tobacco have
advanced 25 per cent. in the Richmond mar
ket in the last thirty days.
In Danvlle last night Charlie Saylor, q
youth of seventeen, shot and killed DICK
Cohen. Saylor has been lodged in jail.
Among the graduates in medicine at the
University of Virginia this session are K: w.
Baker. Winchester; Carter S. Cole, Gull
pepper, and Jonah Nichols, Snckersvile.
Rattlesnakea copperheads, and all other
kinds indigenous to Shenandoah county, II
is said, are more plentiful this season than
usual, the mountains seeming to be alive
with them in places.
Yesterday Patrick OBrien, employed as
watchman at the depot of the Petersburg
and Weldon Railroad Company, in Peters,
burg, fell in the river while fishing and was
drowned before any assistance could be rem
dered him.
The steamer Avalon took to Baltimore on
Saturday the first peaches, two boxes from
Al. w. Marshall, Cricket Hill, Matthews
county, and one box from ]. Carter, Little
Bay, Lancaster county. They were excel
lent peaches.
The Chief of the Fire Department and
Fireman Wommack had en- alteration in
Richmond yesterday evening, during which
pistol in the hands of the latter went oil,
he claimed, accidentally, but did no dam
age. Wommack recently resigned from the
| fire department, which has been in state
of internal dissention, many Of the men be.
during the upbeaval resulting in the cleo
a.. . 1oh fiolyat
Lovingston district, Spotsylvania county,
is afflicted with bloody tlux, and the disease
seems to battle the best medical talent of the
vicinity. Mr.. Warner Clarke has lost son
II years old, and the rest of his family are
ill. Mr.. Lewis Williams has lost two OF his
children. Mr.. William Wheeler child,
and Mr. Albert Faulconer is also very i'll.
Mrs. Edward Johnson died from the same dis.
case. Mr.. Mastia lost child, and all of
Fred Lewis's family are very i'll.
Capt VIM. T. Tomlinson, of Fredericks-
burg for six years the popular agent there
of the Weems line of steamers, and mem
Der of the City Council, is missing since last
Tuesday, when he took the train for Balti-
more. 1t has been ascertained that pack
age containing $500 of money entrusted to
him rs agent Of the company has not been
accounted for. Various rumors are afloat
as to the amount of money the captain owes
TO different individuals and firms, as he
made numerous unsuccessful efforts to save
himself by borrowing money from friends
necessary to meet his obligations to the
company.
Gen. Mahone's residence in Petersburg
was entered yesterday morning between 8
and o'clock by thieves, who went
through" the pockets of the Generals pant.
aoons. taking two $50 bills and 500 in s.
and SO notes. They left the Generals
pants in the passage and then went into Mr..
Butler Mahone's room and took from his
pants about $50 in money. None OF the
! valuable jewelry or silverware about the
house was touched. and the watches in the
clothing of the two gentlemen were left be-
hind. In the store. room the thieves stop
ped to drink bottle of wine and eat some
cake, and also to smoke some of General
Mahonc's fine imported cigars. They car.
ried off several boxes of the latter, branded
''Perfectus," which, it is said, cost about
twenty.o cents for each cigar.